You Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Walk (chuò) Kangxi Strokes: 11 Page 1254, Entry 03 Pronounced ying. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To encounter. Zengyun (Expanded Rhymes): To go against; to meet. Fangyan (Regional Speech) by Yang Xiong: East of the mountain pass, it is called ni; west of the mountain pass, it is called ying. Huainanzi (Book of the Prince of Huainan): Neither sending off nor meeting. Commentary: To send off is to escort. To meet is to receive. It means not following things as they go, and not acting before things occur. Also, to calculate in advance. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Calculating the sun and projecting the calendar. Commentary: This means to calculate in advance. Regarding the sun and moon, the new moons and full moons, one calculates them before they arrive, hence it is called meeting the sun. Also pronounced ying (departing tone). Zheng Yun (Correct Rhymes): When a thing comes and one receives it, the tone is level; when a thing has not yet arrived and one goes to meet it, the tone is departing. Book of Odes (Shijing): Personally meeting the bride at the Wei River. Also rhyming with lang (level tone), pronounced ang. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): The principles reached the essential; the patterns were intertwined and met. The diviner was sent to interpret them, and all that was spoken was accurate. Also rhyming with ju (departing tone), pronounced yu. Chu Ci (Elegies of Chu): The hundred spirits obscured their arrival, those from Mount Jiuli came to meet me. The emperors were radiant as they manifested their power, informing me of the auspicious portents. Textual research: In the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), the phrase was edited from called to interpreted to match the original text.